Janet Fletcher Food Writer

05/03/2024

A splendid evening with the cookbook club, now in its 18th year (or thereabouts). Host Julie Logue-Riordan chose "Fire + Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking" by Darra Goldstein. Just look at that gorgeous beet terrine (made by Julie, who always chooses the hardest dish). The rhubarb and cucumber salad was surprising delicious. And that blueberry Tosca cake was a 12 out of 10. Always a great time with Holly Krassner Dawson Betty Teller
Ken Morris and more.

06/24/2023

If you like gardens and/or good food (does that cover everybody?), please join me at Copperfield's next month. Gather, my latest book, showcases edible gardens at California wineries and the dishes that winery chefs make with the produce they grow. So it's produce-centric and full of garden ideas.

Sunday, July 23rd at 6:30pm
Three-time James Beard Award–winner, Janet Fletcher Food Writer will be coming to thumbprint cellars in Healdsburg to celebrate the release of her new cookbook- Gather: Casual Cooking from Wine Country Gardens. Enjoy a cookbook that celebrates garden-to-table dining & showcases some of California’s most ambitious wineries’ culinary gardens & the dishes they inspire. Discussion followed by Q&A and book signing! Register for free: https://bit.ly/3Nw40pY
(Registration required due to limited seating)
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10/24/2022

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10/21/2022

Love, love, love my cookbook club. Seventeen years and counting. Last night we cooked from Donabe by Kyle McNaughton and Naoko Takei Moore. Japaese clay pot cooking. Every dish a hit and that doesn't happen often. I made the salmon rice--alas, not in a donabe but still tasty. Cooking with Julie, Betty Teller Ken Morris so fun to cook with you all and the rest of our gang.

08/26/2022

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If you're a cheese lover or a beer lover (that's everybody, right?), you might enjoy this conversation. Lots of pairing theories and suggestions from a couple of beer pros, cheese pro Liz Thorpe and yours truly.

A panel of experts discusses pairing cheese with beer. Moderator: Advanced Cicerone® Jen Blair - Panelists: Master Cicerone® Mirella Amat...

07/18/2022

You bet I’m proud! My first handshaped mozzarella. Thanks to Lino Esposito of for the tutorial and the curd. Now, off to find some good tomatoes.

07/14/2022

Mais oui, they are all French: from this week’s “Tour de France” class. Two tied for class favorite so we had to have a run-off. Before I reveal the People’s Choice, here are the contenders, clockwise from 12 o’clock on the plate: Fleur Soleil, Jean Grogne, Hervé Mons Camembert, Gabietou, Tomme de la Coze, Soumaintrain, Hervé Mons Brebis Pyrénées. Gabietou tied with Soumaintrain but prevailed in the runoff.

07/11/2022

Always a sucker for a beautiful rind. Here: Pardou, a raw goat cheese from the Pyrenees. A masterpiece. I found it at but ask your monger about it.

06/28/2022

Just in case you’d rather have a lamb burger than a hamburger on the Fourth of July (I would), here’s my recipe. With grilled red onions and feta. Everything’s better with feta! From Eating Local, a book I wrote a few years ago for . Photo by the awesome .

06/27/2022

Best dish at my cookbook club’s dinner: These incredible eggs in filo with harissa oil from David Tanis’s Heart of the Artichoke. Prepared by . You don’t have a cookbook club?? What are you waiting for?

06/22/2022

Are you eating heaps of sweet corn 🌽 🌽🌽these days? We are. When you get tired of butter and salt, try the Mexican way: grill it, then cut it off the cob and add crema, queso fresco, scallions, cilantro, green chile, chili powder and lime. No time to grill? Just cut kernels off the cob, saute in butter and add the rest. Recipe in Planet Cheese (link in bio) but you can just add everything to taste. So summery, so yummy.

06/16/2022

There was a resounding audience favorite in my Spanish cheese class this week. Can you guess? Clockwise from 12 o’clock: Monte Enebro, La Dama Sagrada, Patacabra, El Abuelo Ruperto, Oveja al Romero, Km 39, Andazul. And the winner was: Monte Enebro. Such profound goat cheese. Km 39 is new and remember that name. You’re going to be seeing more of this wonderful Parm-like cheese from Galicia. In our glasses: Florinda cava, Pazo Cilleiro Albariño and Bodegas Muriel Rioja. Not a bad evening’s work.